The most recent exhibition of Native American art features 69 baskets collected during the late Victorian era when a craze for Native basketry swept the United States.  Ranging in size from an extremely large Apache Indian storage jar to a Pomo Indian basket as small as a tiny seed, the baskets on view in this installation were collected during the years when basket mania seized the nation. ...

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The MIT List Visual Arts Center, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, will present Joan Jonas as the representative for the United States at La Biennale di Venezia 56th International Art Exhibition.  Jonas, a pioneering figure in performance art and video, will create a new multimedia installation that will transform the entirety...

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This exhibition illuminates the experience of the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. Art and artifacts drawn from the Museum’s collections shed light on the development of an extensive network among Europe, Africa, and the Americas that influenced identity and culture in the period. Closed on Mondays and national holidays.

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Franco-Flemish Embroidery from the Met Collection - This installation features a series of rare fifteenth-century embroideries illustrating scenes from the life of Saint Martin (316–397), on display for the first time. These splendid examples of Franco-Flemish embroidery—in which detailed pictorial designs and luminous palettes were created by colored silk and metallic threads—hi...

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Pierre Huyghe - Huyghe has spent the past twenty-five years experimenting across media to create ritualistic, engaging encounters with art. His practice extends beyond the use of traditional art forms like drawing and film to materials uncommon in a fine-arts context, including living animals, plants, and other natural elements.  At the Met, his project explores the transformation of cul...

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Gallery 955 - This exhibition will reunite the four paintings for the first time since the artist's death and is timed to coincide with the blooming of the flowers that captured his attention. It will open 125 years to the week that Van Gogh announced to his brother Theo, on May 11 and 13, 1890, that he was working on these "large bouquets," and will provide a singular opportunity to...

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This exhibition of Karl Stirner‘s sculptures is focused on the sculptor’s decades-long focus on welded steel as a sculptural medium.  The sculptures of Karl Stirner have grown from his experience of the medium and his deep immersion in his sculpture.  The principal difference in Stirner’s steel sculptures which stand him apart from Modernist thought is his choice to work primarily with th...

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The sculptures of Jonas Stirner are by an artist who has developed his own approach and methodology in the creation of sculpture that is at once powerful in its presence yet inviting to the viewer in its seductive use of texture and color.  Jonas, exhibiting with his father Karl for the first time, also prefers to use raw steel and scrap iron in his works.  One of the main characteristics in Jo...

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This exihibit shows the drishti in Clay’s work uses a point of focus in each of the compositions.Clay also sees these works as emblematic of the search for different ways of meditation, awareness, and mindfulness. Also included in the exhibition is an installation of the artist’s works from 2012 when she first used decorative paper techniques to create small-scale renditions of the we...

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Artist and animator Scott Gelber uses stock 3-D models, rich digital textures, and artifacts of contemporary computing to construct elaborate tableaux that are both familiar and inexplicable. For Uncanny Valley Archives, Gelber continues his exploration of the Uncanny Valley, the theory that when artificial beings such as dolls, animated characters, or robots look or behave too much like human bei...

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